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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1978
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Helmut Stoffers, Geesthacht, DT;
Rudolf George, Hamburg, DT;
Assignee:
Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG, Hamburg, DT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24C / ; A24C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131 / ; 131222 ; 1311 / ;
Abstract
Tobacco leaves are converted into wrappers for cigar bunches by removing the midribs from successive leaves, monitoring each of the thus obtained left-hand and right-hand leaf halves by a pair of photoelectric cells to determine whether the halves can yield one or more wrappers, and transferring the left-hand and right-hand halves to discrete first and second stamping stations where the halves are cut to yield wrappers which are automatically fed to the bunch wrapping unit or units of a cigar making machine.